I apologise for the lateness of this chapter, but I will say telling me to update faster, will not make me update. However nice, constructive, sweet messages do make me update faster.

Candace Sledge: Matthew made himself forget about what he felt about Chantelle in chapter 32. I hoped that the fact he thought she was dead in the last chapter would answer any questions as to how he made himself forget his mother. He didn't forget her as such; he just took away the pain of being away from her by fabricating a story where she died. He didn't simply want to make himself forget her completely, he wanted to remember his mother but he also wanted to remove the temptation of running back to her. If he had forgotten Chantelle completely he would have realised something was wrong and that his memories had been altered. Remember he has no idea what he did to himself in chapter 32, only Ariella knows.

March 2035

Sophia Cullen

"William Edward Black sit down" I ordered my fiancée, he was pale and sweating, his already high body temperature seemed to be even higher although it was hard for me to tell since my own temperature was high but he was definitely sick.

"Im fine" he groaned, clearly too weak to reach the dvd we had decided to watch that was tucked away in a cupboard.

"I'll do it" I told him and pushed him towards the couch.

"No! You're 8 months pregnant with twins. You're not supposed to be doing anything!" he told me sternly. He lifted me into his arms, albeit with a grunt and placed me on the couch.

"Stay" he ordered playfully and kissed my lips before going over to the cupboard and instead of kneeling in front of the cupboard he fell to his knees.

"Will" I sighed sadly, just because I was carrying two babies inside me it didn't mean I couldn't bend down to reach a dvd. William could barely stand.

"Babe, my wolf genes will burn this fever right off, I'll be fine in a few hours, trust me." He told me and managed to place the dvd in the player and make his way back over to me. He sat at my feet and I tried the best I could to move over to him, he smiled and pulled me onto his lap; me crawling over there just wasn't going to happen.

I couldn't stay on his lap for long; he was just way too hot and seemed to be really tired, he had fallen asleep half way through the movie. I wanted to curl up with him and sleep too but my stomach wasn't going to let that happen. In the first few months of us living together we'd pick out a movie every night but I would rarely make it to the end. I would curl into his chest as we lay across the sofa; barely staying on it with William's giant frame behind me and fall asleep. He would have his arm wrapped around my stomach to keep me with him but that just wasn't possible anymore and I just couldn't wait for these babies to be born so I could cuddle Will again.

I didn't want to fall asleep on the couch and there was no way I could carry him, half vampire or not, my large pregnant stomach wouldn't let me. So I turned off the TV and kissed him softly on his burning forehead. I was just heading out the door when William moved.

"Where are you going?" he asked thick with sleep.

"Bed" I told him and turned to see him trying his best to climb off the couch.

"Im coming" he said and made his way over to me. We climbed the stairs together and both laughed as William tripped over the top step.

"Being sick also makes you clumsy?" I asked him walking to our room.

"Apparently so. Now I know how Izzy feels" he sighed as we reached out bed he collapsed down on top of it.

I climbed into the bed next to him and tried to get comfortable, which was extremely difficult now a days.

"We're a great pair aren't we?" he laughed, I giggled in response as I tried my best to curl into him and fall asleep.

I woke up the next morning to the feeling of cramps in my lower stomach, then the familiar sharp shooting pain.

"Ow" I groaned as I rolled onto my side to change my position.

"Are you ok?" Will asked concerned, I did the breathing Carlisle taught me before I answered him.

"Yeah" I answered when the pain subdued. I was getting braxton hicks and have been for 2 weeks now on and off. I technically wasn't due for another 3 weeks but my grandfather said that because they're twins I probably won't carry them to full term. So every time I got a fake contraction Will was at my side expecting my waters to break.

"I don't like that this is happening all the time" he groaned as he sat next to me on our bed.

"It's normal" I told him. I smiled at him; he seemed perfectly healthy this morning with no sign of illness. He had been right about being fine in a few hours, all he needed was rest.

"I still don't like it" he frowned, his hand going onto my very big bump. I rested my hand over his, my engagement ring shone in the morning sun that was escaping into our room. I was staring at it, almost in a trance when the phone rang, interrupting my concentration. William moved over to it on the dresser.

"Hello" he answered.

"Good morning William, I hope this isn't too early?" I heard Carlisle on the other end of the phone. I gently stroked my stomach as I listened to the conversation.

"Not at all, Sophia and I were awake"

"Oh good, I was hoping you and Sophia could come over today, I wanted to talk through some plans for the birth"

"Sure, we still need to eat so is an hour ok?"

"Perfect William, see you then"

"Bye grandpa" Will said and hung up. "Did you hear that?" he asked turning to me. I was already sitting up in the bed and pulling Williams shirt over my head to get dressed, none of my clothes fit anymore, Alice had bought me dozens of maternity clothes for during the day but at night time I hated being restricted by pyjamas so I just wore one of William's t shirts, but even now I had stretched a few out, when he put them on they were hanging off his large frame. It made me cringe to think how fat I was.

"Yep" I answered and stood up, I swayed slightly and William was at my side in a second holding my shoulders.

"Slow down" he said and kissed my forehead. "You're worse than Isobel" he laughed. I smiled.

"Yeah, she won't last the 9 months when shes pregnant" I giggled. Izzy was the clumsiest person I knew, clumsiest person anyone knew.

Will and I dressed and had a quick breakfast before making our way to the Cullen's, we were greeted by pretty much everyone and my grandmother had her arm around my back the second I entered the house. I leant into her for comfort, even though I didn't need the support she was trying to offer me.

"Im not carrying vampire babies grandma, im fine" I smiled at her.

"You're just so big" Rosalie said with a concerned frown.

"She's actually rather small for twins" Carlisle said with a smile. Small? I didn't feel small. I was huge! I saw Edward laugh at my thoughts.

"Renesmee was bigger" he informed me.

"Not by much" Rose countered.

"If you'd like to come with me" Carlisle said holding out his hand, I took it and Will and I left our grandparents to argue over who was bigger when they were pregnant with twins.

"So how are you feeling?" Carlisle asked me when he sat me down in the comfy arm chair.

"Fat" I answered honestly. He smiled sweetly at me.

"Not long now, you could give birth any day Sophia."

"Im hoping sooner than later" I sighed.

"Well I think we should make a basic plan on how you want to do things, for example, do you want to have the babies naturally?" he asked me.

"Yes" I nodded in response. I wasn't having a c section just because it would be easier, I didn't want an ugly scar, I knew Bella had a scar from both her births but you barely saw them on her vampire skin, you would see them on mine.

"Very well, Nicole has agreed to be on call from now on until the birth, any signs of labour give me a call and I'll get her over here."

"When will I stop getting braxton hicks?" I asked.

"You probably won't now, but you'll know the difference, as soon as your water breaks you know you're definitely in labour" he smiled at me.

"Right" I laughed nervously.

"Everything will be ok" he assured me.

"I know. Thank you grandpa" I said and tried to hug him. He chuckled.

"You're welcome, is there anything else you want during the birth? Your mother? Or just William?" he asked. I hadn't thought about this, did my mother want to be there? I frowned to myself.

"I have to think about it." I answered honestly. Having my mom there would be a comfort but at the same time I just wanted Will and Nicole there, I didn't need anyone else unless anything went wrong and my mom might make me more anxious.

"Of course, do you want medication to be ready for you?"

"Ready yes, but just as an option. Am I having the babies in the hospital?" I asked.

"That's up to you. We have a perfectly good system here to take care of the babies. The only reason Renesmee had her twins at the hospital is because she went into labour at just under 8 months. The boys had to be checked. You are well over the safe point Sophia; your babies will be healthy no matter where they're born"

"Here then" I answered.

"Very well, I will let Nicole know" he answered. "Any more questions for me?"

"Not right now" I told him as Will shook his head. Carlisle smiled to me with what I thought was excitement.

"Sophia, William are you hungry?" Esme asked coming into the room.

"We just ate grandma, thank you" I smiled at her.

"Oh look at you" she sighed and came over to me she held both my hands in hers. "You look exhausted, are you staying for a while?" she asked. I felt like saying that's what being pregnant does to you but I decided not to.

"Sure" Will and I said at the same time.

"Go and be with the family, I think we're done here, im just going to call Nicole" Carlisle said to us and kissed my temple. Esme led me out of the study and into the living room where our family was. I waddled over to the couch and sat down next to my grandmother with a sigh. Rosalie smiled at me.

"Getting impatient?" she asked.

"Yes. I just want them out now" I sighed and rested my head on her shoulder. Esme sat next to me and Will sat on the floor at my feet.

"Us too… these babies are great grandchildren to many in this room" she told me. I looked around the room then. My babies would be great grandchildren to everyone in this room. Bella and Edward's biological great grandchildren and Alice and Jaspers, through my dad and Rose and Emmett's through my mom. These children would be the first to call all the original Cullen's their grandparents instead of their aunts or uncles. Edward smiled at me. I could tell he liked the thought of that.

"They will be loved and spoilt by many" he said. "And we can't wait to meet them"

"I'll get working on that" I laughed and he smiled wider. Alice came over to me then with two big books in her hand.

"Budge" she commanded Will, he sighed and did as she said and moved over towards Esme, she had one hand in mine and started to stroke Will's hair with the other. Alice knelt in front of me and placed a book on my lap; at least the only part of my lap that my bump wasn't resting on. Alice had been round the past two days giving me nursery ideas.

"I took everything you said into consideration and I think this would be perfect." She said pointing at a design of a room in the book. The cribs were very beautiful, I had already picked them out months ago but the room was something I wasn't sure about, I didn't want to just go with cream using unisex everything but at the same time I didn't want the room half blue half pink so I asked Alice to come up with a few ideas, she was ecstatic that I had asked for her help. I had felt bad that she wasn't planning our wedding yet, it wasn't going to be for a few years so at least I could let her do something in the meantime, she had already done the baby shower.

The picture she showed me was just perfect. It was all very elegant but basic, the furniture and the walls were white and cream, each crib had a small canopy against the wall but all the accessories were in baby blue and baby pink, giving the room a small splash of colour.

"I thought that we could put their names above each crib, just inside the canopy instead of them pictures, if you want. In blue and pink to match everything else and in the middle, since our family is so big we couldn't really do a family tree like that we could put a picture of them both up there, the very first picture you take maybe" she explained. I had tears falling from my eyes from my over emotional pregnant hormones.

"Alice I love it" I told her. She smiled widely at me. She pulled the book off to give me a hug. I hugged her back and I felt one of the babies kick where Alice was pressed against me. We both giggled as we pulled away.

"I'll go get everything ready" she smiled and stood up. The room was mostly finished anyway, it was already painted cream, with cream carpet and the cribs were sitting in there waiting, I had no doubt Alice could go get everything she needed on the way and finish the room today. "Emmett, Jasper. With me!" she told them.

"Yes ma'am" Jasper said with a salute, Emmett grinned widely and happily followed her.

"He's excited for his great grandchildren" Rosalie told me with a smile.

"We all are" Bella added and came over to us. I spent the entire morning with my vampire family, I didn't realise how excited the all were for the birth of the twins but it made the anticipation that much harder to bear.

I had no idea that that afternoon Alice, Emmett and Jasper would be rushing to finish the nursery before I gave birth that evening.

Holly Cullen

It was late afternoon before I left Jason's house. I didn't often stay long the day after but he was really crap at cleaning and I promised him id help him clean his house. After all I spent a lot of time there and his manliness was driving me insane. He hadn't been in his own house for long, he left the Uley residence because he couldn't stand living with his sister and parents anymore, whilst he assured me he still loved them and always would he had grown up to a point where he hated that he hated living with them, so he moved out. I wasn't complaining. It made our little arrangement just perfect. We had a house where no one else lived to do whatever we wanted in. I kept the whole 'friends with benefits' thing a secret from everyone but Will for a while but it wasn't long before some people found out. Will was the one that encouraged me to give Jason a chance, I initially wasn't sure about the offer but something Will said made me change my mind.

"Where is the free spirited, live in the moment Holly I grew up with?" he asked me.

"Here I think" I laughed.

"Then just go with it, have fun. It doesn't have to have strings, as long as you're comfortable with the fact maybe one day he'll imprint there's no harm in having fun before then. Just don't fall for him" he had laughed with me.

That very same day I walked over to Jason's house and pulled him into a kiss on his front yard. We quickly moved it indoors and have been sleeping together ever since. It wasn't just sex either; we were still best friends, and exactly how we were in the year before then. Nothing had changed except we tended to have a lot more fun together and I didn't regret making the decision what so ever. We had a healthy balance and we both reminded each other every day what the arrangement was. I didn't feel like I could fall in love with him. He was my best friend not my future husband.

As well as William, my sisters also knew but didn't dare talk to me about it, although I knew Lidiya didn't agree with it what so ever, she respected me enough not to lecture me. Avia was too busy brooding to pay attention to me and whilst Anelie was still only a child, she too understood what I was doing; she was just too shy to say anything to me.

I had managed to keep it from my parents for four months but last month I overslept, way past the time I told my parents I would be home and my mom tracked me down, right to Jason's bed. I made her swear she wouldn't tell my dad and she promised me she wouldn't, at least for now but I knew she was secretly judging me the entire way home that day. She hadn't spoken to me about it since but I knew my mom well enough to know she wasn't going to just forget what she saw.

Today was the day she had found the courage to talk to me about it.

"Holly can I talk to you please?" I heard Chloe on the other side of the door. I closed my laptop, waiting for the hurricane to hit. I was surprised she hadn't lectured me the day she found me but I assumed she had taken this long because she was thinking through how to approach me about it. I was technically and physically an adult, she knew she couldn't parent me in the same way anymore. I was only living here because I hadn't decided what I wanted to do with my life yet and moving in with Jason would make our arrangement feel way too coupley and I didn't want that.

"Yeah" I answered and shuffled in my bed so I was sitting up. My mom came in and closed the door; she walked human speed to my bed and sat on the edge.

"We need to talk" she said softly. I sighed, waiting for the yelling. "I know you're an adult now and im not saying this as your mother, im saying it as someone who is concerned, someone who has been around wolves and imprints for the past 20 years." She began, I fought the urge to roll my eyes, my mom really seemed concerned but she didn't understand. If she knew that we weren't actually dating she might feel better.

"Mom stop worrying im not dating Jason." I told her, she frowned.

"I saw you in bed with him Holly, you were both naked, you can't tell me that was a friendly visit" she said in disbelief.

"It was though, it's just sex mom. Im not in love with him, it's just… convenience" I shrugged, feeling like I was about to blush, I told my mom everything, when I was dating phoenix, she knew when I lost my virginity, she knew everything up until when he hurt me, then I stopped telling her anything.

"Holly" she frowned. "Do you know how those kind of relationships end?" she asked. "Heartbreak" she answered before I had a chance to answer her.

"Im not going to fall for him mom"

"He might fall for you"

"He won't" I laughed.

"What about when he imprints?"

"That's the whole point of not dating. It's friends with benefits. He'll always be my best friend, we just have sex" I shrugged. I didn't know what was so hard for her to grasp.

"If you say so" she sighed but I could see she was still concerned. I leant over and hugged her. She chuckled slightly.

"I just want you to be happy sweetheart. Heartbreak is horrible to experience" she said and kissed my temple. I pulled away, knowing she knew first-hand what heartbreak was like.

"What was it like? When you thought dad didn't love you?" I asked. I had heard my parent's story before, plenty of times even but I never really asked my mom what it was like for her. I had mostly heard it from my dad's perspective. She shrugged and looked down.

"Not as bad as your grandmother" she answered. "I didn't know what it was like to be loved by Eddie before he broke my heart," she laughed almost as if it was a ridiculous term. It was. My parents were so happy; to think they were ever not perfect wasn't fathomable for me, I had never seen them unhappy. "Edward was with Bella before he left her, I couldn't imagine that pain of losing Eddie now after I know him so well. That's what happened with Bella. I was just an over sensitive self-aware teenager so it felt a lot worse than it should have been."

"The opposite of me?" I laughed. She smiled.

"I was a very jealous teenager, part of that was my sensitiveness; I was extremely quiet as a child and self-aware as a teenager. I never thought of myself as beautiful or pretty, I got better when I dated Zac, he made me feel incredibly special and sure he was good looking when he was younger but not many girls went after him because he wasn't in the 'cool' circle. Nessie, Zac and I just kept to ourselves, we gained more friends, Emma and Liam and others over the years but the three of us always stayed together. Dating Zac I didn't feel like I was threatened by anyone but when I started dating your father, everyone that looked at him was a threat. Part of that steamed from my insecurities in myself but also I never believed he loved me as much as I loved him. He had said those words to me before we were together, the day he told me he would never love me lived with me for a very long time, even when we were together and he told me how much he did love me part of me always thought about what if someone better came along. I was incredibly insecure about myself too, I was surrounded by Renesmee and her vampire relatives, and they were so beautiful compared to me, it made me wonder why Eddie loved me when I was so plain"

"You're not plain" I gasped, my mother was beautiful and I'd give anything to be as pretty as her. Im not insecure, I think Avia was the one that got Chloe's insecurities but I knew I wasn't anything like my mother. She was a vampire after all.

"I know that now, ive had 20 years of Eddie telling me" she laughed.

"So as a teenager you were jealous of girls with dad?" I asked getting back to the point of the story.

"Yes, Esther mostly. Well, Esther a lot" she laughed.

I literally laughed out loud. I could never ever imagine my dad with Esther, they were like siblings.

"I didn't always view her as my best friend" she smiled, whether at the memory or her friendship with Esther I don't know. "I hated her when I was younger, really hated her. I regret it now of course. Esther was the topic of many fights between your father and i. Only now can I see that it was just me reading into things"

"But they admitted that they might have been together if you weren't around" I said, remembering last Christmas when we found out Esther was really Lidiya's mother.

"Yes, and that's what I was reading into as a teenager. The fact that they felt drawn to each other. It didn't necessarily mean they would have been romantically involved, they were just always destined to be close friends, and their species makes sure of that. Esther was drawn to Aleksander and Eddie formed an immediate close bond with Christian when we visited him last year" she explained. Christian was the third moon pool child, only my mother and father had met him. They said that he was going to come visit us all when he was fully grown but right now he was still a child.

There was a slight knock on the door and my mom and I turned to see my dad poke his head around.

"Girls, im sorry to interrupt but I think you'd like to know that Sophia went into labour about twenty minutes ago"

"Oh my god!" I squealed in excitement, I had been waiting for this day for weeks now. My best friends were finally going to get the babies they always wanted.

"We'll finish this later, let's head over" Chloe said and kissed my forehead. I smiled at my mother and nodded in agreement as we climbed off my bed.

"Avia, let's go" my father called. She came out of her room with a smile on her face. I was glad she was smiling; it was rare that I got to see her smile. I took her hand and squeezed it slightly. I hadn't spent much time with my little sister recently, I had been too preoccupied but I made a mental note to talk to her more.

Im fine Hol; let's go see our new niece and nephew. She said in her head.

You're not fine and we will talk about it. I answered her back as we headed down stairs and left the house.

Holly. She whined in her normal annoying little sister voice.

Im being serious, you're my baby sister and you're not happy.

She's right Avia. You need to talk about it. Lidiya chimed in. I could see both her and Esther were making their way to the Cullen house too. Anelie was with Tony. As always.

Fine but not now, we have new little people to meet. Avia said a little happier. I dropped the conversation as we reached the Cullen mansion. Everyone was there, including Charlie and Sue. Seeing them made me feel sad that Billy wasn't here. I was never close to him but I knew he loved his grandchildren a lot and for him to have met his great-grandchildren like so many in this room were about to would have made his day.

Chantelle and Nessie were sitting on the couch, Chantelle had her hand in Nessie's and the other one at her mouth biting her nails as her knee bounced up and down in anticipation. The entire room was tense and I knew each and every one of them, minus Lauren, Isobel, Charlie and Sue could hear what was going on upstairs. At least Sophia wasn't screaming in pain which I was glad for, I knew Izzy would be distressed hearing her favourite person in pain.

Sophia had requested that she only wanted Nicole and William in the room and for Carlisle to see to the babies but it was killing me to stand down here when both my best friends were up there. I tried to stay distracted by planning the things I was going to do with my new niece and nephew but first and foremost I just hoped that everything was going ok. It wasn't long before Sophia started screaming and it was loud and clear like she was in the same room. After the first scream I bolted up from my sitting position and started to pace the room. Isobel crawled into Jacob's lap and he held her against him, his hand over her ear that wasn't pressed into his chest. I wondered how much of this she understood, she wasn't a baby anymore but she was still very much the child in the family.

"Holly sit down, you're too much like your father and aunt" Chloe said to me. I did as she said and sat down next to Lidiya, Anelie and Avia who were sitting in the bay window. I could see both Nessie and Eddie fighting the urge to pace the room too, I silently wondered who we got it from.

"Ashton Billy" I heard Edward say seconds later. My head whipped round to look at my grandfather standing against the wall with Bella. I was slightly jealous he got a direct loop to the room they were in.

"He was first?" I asked. He nodded.

"Carlisle's just gone in to get the baby. 6lbs 8oz" he clarified, he was smiling the entire time. Nearly six minutes later Edward was smiling again and I knew Phoebe had been born.

"Phoebe Sarah, 5lbs 11oz"

"They're coming down in a minute" he added.

"Already?" Avia asked, her excitement growing with everyone else's in the room. I looked over to Jasper, expecting him to be bouncing off the walls with this much happiness and anticipation. He had the widest smile on his face and I honestly thought he was seconds away from doing it.

"Sophia is a hybrid, shes nearly fully recovered, she needs rest and some sleep but she can walk down the stairs to meet us all" Edward smiled.

It was moments later before they came down the stairs. Sophia was holding a blue blanket and William a pink one. The twins were passed around and each of them were a perfect copy of Will and Sophia, they were both pale but not too pale, Ashton was just slightly darker skinned than Phoebe. Ashton had jet black hair and Phoebe was blonde. They were asleep as they were passed around their family.

"So when are you going to share the same name as your children?" I hinted to Sophia in a whisper, she smiled.

"They're not Blacks" she told me. Wait what?

"But surely you want them to have the same name as you two when you're married."

"We've decided that the twins will have a double barrelled name, that way the Cullen name will be passed on in some way. The only Cullen's are females." William explained looking to me raising his eyebrows. He was right, the only Cullen's in our generation were all girls, when we married we wouldn't be Cullen's anymore.

"So they're Black-Cullen?" I asked.

"Cullen-Black, they can chose as to which name they take publically when they're older. I haven't decided if I am going to be Sophia Black when we get married yet either, I'll probably take both names" Sophia explained. I knew Sophia was brave to bring this up with our old fashioned vampire family. They were all very traditional and probably didn't like the fact Sophia didn't want to take Black as her surname, but at the same time im sure most of them were glad that the Cullen name will carry on.

"When Phoebe gets married she can chose to either take her husband's name or mix and match the surnames." William explained. "She's not getting married for another 30 years though" he added as she was handed back to him, he kissed her forehead and her eyes opened. They were chocolate brown, just like William and Renesmee. I smiled at him with his daughter. It seems like only yesterday we were children and we did everything together. Now he was a father to two children, I silently wondered if I could have children, or if I wanted them. I had been having sex with Jason for a good few months, sometimes unprotected when we forgot and I hadn't got pregnant. Part of me thought I wouldn't ever be able to have children.

"Don't be silly Holly; your species was created for reproduction. You just need to go to a moon pool" my grandfather whispered in my ear so no one else heard. I turned to see him behind me smiling. I managed to smile slightly back. Part of me hoped he was right, but then I wouldn't mind if I couldn't, I wasn't the mother type. I felt like I wanted to be the super cool and fun aunt to William and Sophia's kids. That would fill any hole I had that longed for motherhood. It was very small and at least this way I could hand the kids back after a few hours. My father smiled at me.

Not going to make me a grandfather? He asked.

You want to be a grandfather? I asked him in my head knowing he could read my mind.

No not right now, but eventually sure. He added.

I don't know daddy. I think Avia is your best bet at getting grandkids. I told him truthfully.

You might not think you're the mother type but neither was Chantelle before she had Sophia or Sophia before she got pregnant. I think you would love being a mother.

Daddy, you're not supposed to encourage me. I teased him; he just smiled at me from across the room.

You're growing up. I see that now. Eddie added sadly. I just wanted to hug him in response.

I'll always be your little girl. I reminded him before my attention was drawn to the baby girl that was put in my arms.

Pictures of Ashton and Phoebe are on my blog, both at babies and toddlers; as well as the picture of the nursery Alice showed Sophia.